Sheila Yasmin Marikar

The influencer Christina Najjar, a.k.a. Tinx, discusses modern relationship etiquette and her new book, “The Shift.”

Ashley Merrill and Kate MacArthur came up with a card game called the Deep, a series of conversational prompts designed to make awkward silences obsolete.

To keep up with an escalation in rewards perks, an American Express travel manager darts around the city to check for fingerprints on hotel light fixtures and judge which quail-egg-and-caviar blinis to recommend.

The landscape designer Lily Kwong wants to replace L.A.’s exotic plants with native species, which require less water and satisfy the allergy constraints of her husband, Nick Kroll.

Anthony Hopkins has played Nixon, Hamlet, and an oblivious butler; next, he is starring in a series of non-fungible tokens, portraying an array of Jungian stereotypes, Hollywood style.

The founder of Oishii, whose haute-cuisine strawberries have sold for as much as ten dollars a pop, offers a tour of one of his V.C.-backed vertical farms, modelled on the foothills of Japan and built in New Jersey.

At Coachella, Gaggan Anand, the Michelin-starred chef turned purveyor of festival feasts, serves up slow-cooked duck and cedar-grilled barramundi before heading off to see Fatboy Slim.

The C.E.O. of the cosmetics company QMS, which sells bovine collagen, wants men to follow the lead of Daniel Craig, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Timothée Chalamet, who’ve used his products to smooth their faces.

Like an advice columnist but on Instagram, Christina Najjar dispenses wisdom on self-esteem and how to avoid fuck boys to her nearly two million social-media followers during a walk around Beverly Hills.

Where is a psilocybin-seeking opinion leader supposed to find a festival these days? Try Ondalinda, a five-day party in Careyes, Mexico, featuring COVID tests, private villas, dance parties, and a celebration of mycelium.

Employees of the wearable-device company meet to brainstorm how to popularize its non-sleep-tracking features, such as menstrual-cycle predictions.

The “Full Bloom” judge and florist for Beyoncé and Louis Vuitton talks flowers, tedium, and how fickle the trend of supporting Black businesses can be.

At the Power Broker Awards, a gathering of the buzziest Los Angeles real-estate agents, movers and shakers of the “Selling Sunset” ilk, dish on seventy-million-dollar sales and why everyone is getting a pickleball court.

The actress, comedian, and author Phoebe Robinson can add “publishing mogul” to her bio, now that she’s started her own imprint, Tiny Reparations Books.

The author of “Crazy Rich Asians” stayed home during lockdown, as unmasked jet-set friends checked out Tulum and Hawaii. Can he bust loose to celebrate the publication of his latest, “Sex and Vanity”?

Tina Meeks, who makes three hundred thousand dollars a year on social media, teaches classes that train the next generation of Insta-foodies and mommy bloggers.